Jane Lykins

The elevator music soundtrack is incongruent and plays through every scene to cover for terrible acting and editing, the dialogue is unbelievable and forced, the characters have no complexity, and even Denzel feels like a fresh out of drama school over-acting hack. The story is basic and definitely not worth 2 hrs and 14 mins of my time. What happened to Spike Lee?? He used to be great.

This film is tender, hilarious, sad, hopeful, completely honest, beautifully filmed, and brilliant, with a great sound track to boot. At first I was concerned it might exploit Harper for the sake of a story, but it was immediately apparent she was fully on board, and that their goal was raising awareness, acceptance, and understanding. Her description of her childhood and her journey were so well stated, and so poignent. And they openly address the elephant in the room (that Will is so recognizable it renders the interactions wth the public on this rural road trip ingenuine), but Harper expalins that the safety Will and his fame provided gave her more confidence to forge her way on her own more authentically. I think this story is exactly what many aging Gen x-ers need to help them understand the transgender community. A must see!